Workshop Details:
- Day 1
- 1:45 – 2:30
- Room – Vickers 1
- In English with French translation
Description:
An opportunity to flex and stretch with lively music to move to with resist-a-bands – which will strengthen, elongate muscle, tone, release stress in the body, and feel good!
This session will wind down with a calming stretch and complete relaxation.
Relationship to Community & Collaboration
This session focuses on the importance of movement for a healthy community.
Presenter:
Theresa Ducharme
Lemon Cree
Theresa Ducharme is a Red River Métis-Cree/Salteaux who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mother of two, and a grandmother, Kokum to one. She is the founder and built the brand “Lemon Cree Fitness and Wellness” along with her daughter Jessica Matten from the TV show Dark Winds, Rez Ball and Frontier.
Lemon Cree was created in Montreal, Quebec in 2010. Her unique, innovative fitness program took the James Bay Cree Nation in Quebec by storm, which started a fitness revolution in all 10 Cree communities, plus Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. The programs went on and expanded to Listiguj, Mi’maq Nation, Moose Factory, Ontario Fort Albany, Ontario, and Webequie first Nation, Ontario and many more communities and cities in the East. In August 2015, Theresa expanded the programs to British Columbia to the communities Lower Nicola Indian Band, N’Quatqua, Squamish and the Tsleil- Wautauth Nation. Lemon Cree also trained Bounce Fit trainers for their community.
Theresa has been a professional athlete and trainer since 2006. Previous to this career she was the Community Coordinator for Sisters In Spirit from 2005-2009 at Native Women’s Association of Canada in Ottawa. It is here where the movement of MMIWGS++ started by raising awareness nationally. She was on the original first team of the development of the National vigils that happen across Canada every October 4 th . Theresa’s career however started very young at the age of 14 where she was a National Fashion Model for runways and print ads for Reitman’s, Eaton’s, The Hudson Bay, Simpson Sears, and many print and runway ads. In the 90s, she opened a Modelling agency called Mystique Models Inc in Edmonton Alberta where she trained and hired Indigenous people for print and runway.
Theresa is showcased in one of Canada’s top bestseller books called “Smoke Signals from the Heart” which features Indigenous people in Canada who made a positive difference and she also is the winner of the 12 th year Aboriginal Business Award from Miziwe Biik in Toronto, Ontario.
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